1. The world hates Jesus because he comes to lead us to love and forgive all, including our enemies.
  2. The Trinity is a handy shorthand for all that God has done to justify sinners.
  3. After the big, splashy, exciting day of Pentecost in Acts 2, church life faded into the ordinary life of ragtag sinners encountering the God of the cross coming to them in seemingly unawesome ways. What can we learn from this?
  4. That on Pentecost God’s Spirit should function through a dozen seeming inebriates should be no surprise when this same God saves through the ignominy of the cross.
  5. A few of our staff members have shared what they are looking forward to reading in the coming months below. If you’re looking for titles to fill your own summer reading list, we hope this list is a helpful resource.
  6. The list of things our kids need to know when they leave the house is much simpler than we might believe.
  7. Armed with great analogies, airtight logic, and razor sharp wit, Lewis keeps you spellbound from one chapter to another as you find yourself going “further up and further in.”
  8. God’s gifts, in turn, conform our minds to the mind of Christ, and catechize our imagination in the image of God’s Son.
  9. To give us God’s name, the name that is above every name, Christ gave us the exact words to say at baptism: the name of the triune God who is three persons, one God: “I baptize you in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.”
  10. Each email entry in The Withertongue Emails is intended to compel the reader to stop and think about their pastor, themselves, and their churches.
  11. Maybe it was because I read this book to put myself to sleep. But maybe the lack of any Christian references was part of my sadness.
  12. The problem with sin is that we fail to honor God who wants to take our hearts captive and fill us with his goodness.